It appears that kmail requires akonadi to provide a few extra Agent Types.
as of kmail 23.04.3 the following are listed as dependencies * akonadi * akonadi-contacts * akonadi-mime * akonadi-searchinstalling the following packages enables kmail to start up. The import & account wizards are still unavailable so you may need to add any account settings manually.
* akonadi * akonadi-calendar * akonadi-contacts * akonadi-mime * akonadi-notes * akonadi-search